Ticking Over
Builders are back on site at home and cracking on. This means I need to be around a lot to answer queries and discuss best approach to problems that arise. They are brilliant and make me smile as they sing along to Minster fm – one of them sang along, word perfect to a Pink number the other day!
Meanwhile work for RAW http://www.ryedaleartworks.com/ has picked up pace: the mentor training with Annamaria Wills of CIDA has been booked, the venue sorted and lunches arranged.
The RAW group visit to MIMA has been rearranged for January; William Tillyer has very kindly agreed to give us a tour of this important show and talk to us about it. I am very excited about this and very grateful to MIMA for helping me to sort this out after the initial problems.
http://www.visitmima.com/index.php
We are also working hard on finding a space for our pop up flagship exhibition next year but nothing has been finalised for that.
My own work is not progressing much, but I am still scribbling away in my sketch book when the mood takes me. I have written a review of fellow artist Jennifer Tetlow’s solo show and this is unexpectedly going to be published in the December issue of a small local magazine called Valley News. I have also put the review on my blog: http://suegough.blogspot.co.uk/
Other committments will prevent me from making any work in the studio until after Christmas now, and I have decided not to get too stressed about this but to be realistic about how much work I can get done. I am in the process of filling in the application form for entry in North Yorkshire Open Studios for next June (my first time, if successful) and I was successful in my application to have a presence on the Art Connections data base. I am looking forward to seeing it once it goes live. There have also been some interesting workshops done in response to my activity on the Access Art web site.
http://www.art-connections.org.uk/
All being well, I’ll manage serious studio time after the Christmas and new year celebrations are out the way.
